'I wanted to convey the rage': Folk singer goes viral with song about Brian Thompson killing
Joe DeVito was on a long drive from a gig in Nashville to New York on Thursday with the news of a health insurance CEO being gunned down heavy on his mind. He saw that people were using the death as an opportunity to express anger at the health insurance industry and share their own stories of being denied coverage for care. Along the way, in Virginia, he pulled over at a rest stop to record a song about it.
“I wanted to throw my two cents in and try and try and convey that rage, and why people are so mad,” he tells The Independent.
“As a songwriter, my job is to capture these emotions and sort of wrap them in melodies and rhymes in a way that makes them more digestible and helps people understand them,” he adds.
The song is a condemnation of the health insurance industry which the victim, Brian Thompson, had shaped and worked in for decades. It’s part murder ballad and part protest song, both of which have roots in the folk tradition. The chorus echoes the words the killer had reportedly carved onto the bullet casings found at the scene: “Deny, defend, depose.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brian-thompson-ceo-killed-deny-defend-depose-song-tiktok-b2661040.html
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I don't have Tik Tok, so I have not heard the song.
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